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MOVIES 'AUSTRALIA.' Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman star in Baz Luhrmann's large-scale, pre-World War II epic. Opens Wednesday. 'MILK.' Sean Penn stars as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold a major public office. Opens...Tags: Hammerstein Ballroom, Australia, Reese Witherspoon, Sean Penn, Manhattan (New York City)
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El Cascanueces: una joya del ballet clásico
EL SENTINELPara los amantes de la danza y para quienes disfrutan espectáculos familiares, El Cascanueces se ha convertido en una especie de ritual navideño. Conocida en inglés como el Nutcracker, la obra en versión ópera — basada en el cuento de E. T. A....Tags: Dance, Kravis Center, Miami City Ballet, Arts, Culture
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Artistic director quits Orlando Ballet
Sentinel Staff WriterIn an abrupt upheaval at the Orlando Ballet, artistic director Bruce Marks quit Saturday night and was replaced Monday morning by Robert Hill, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Marks, 71, who said he left for personal reasons, had...Tags: Dance, Dancing, Twyla Tharp
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Orlando Ballet artistic director Bruce Marks quit Saturday, replaced Monday morning
Sentinel Staff WriterIn an abrupt upheaval at the Orlando Ballet, artistic director Bruce Marks quit Saturday night and was replaced Monday morning by Robert Hill , a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Marks, 71, who said he left for personal reasons,...Tags: Dance, Dancing, Twyla Tharp
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San Francisco Ballet at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
San Francisco Ballet, this nation's oldest classical dance company, is 75 years young -- to underscore the compliment.
When you've lasted that long and are kicking up your heels as well as these dancers do, it's worth a celebration. Artistic director...Tags: Paul Hindemith, Dance, Music, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Antonio Vivaldi
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Preserving Balanchine's intentions
"She's a snake," says former ballerina Yvonne Mounsey, describing the Siren in George Balanchine's 1929 ballet "Prodigal Son," a role that ranks as classical ballet's most fearsome dominatrix. In 1950, Balanchine restaged the work for New York City Ballet...Tags: Dance, Antony Tudor, Maria Tallchief, Miami City Ballet, Suzanne Farrell
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WORLD: R. Hightower, 88, ballet school founder
OKLAHOMA CITY - Rosella Hightower, an Oklahoma-born ballerina who became a leading figure in the European dance world and founded a major ballet school in France, has died. She was 88. Hightower died early Tuesday at her home in Cannes, France, after a...Tags: Dance, Maria Tallchief, Dancing
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San Francisco Ballet celebrates by creating more to celebrate
When asked about his plans for San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tomasson initially sounds like someone recovering from giving an enormous party. "Will there be changes down the road?" he says. "You never know, but I haven't had a chance this year to sit back...Tags: Facebook, Dance, Paul Taylor, Culture, Dancing
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Star Oklahoma ballerina
Associated PressAssociated Press Rosella Hightower, an Oklahoma-born ballerina who became a leading figure in the European dance world and founded a major ballet school in France, has died. She was 88. Ms. Hightower died Tuesday at her home in Cannes, France,...Tags: New York Times, Dance, Maria Tallchief, Dancing
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Gerald Arpino dies at 85; dancer and choreographer co-founded Joffrey Ballet
Times Staff And Wire ReportsGerald Arpino, who co-founded the acclaimed Joffrey Ballet and oversaw its move from New York to Chicago, died Wednesday at his home in Chicago. He was 85. Arpino, a dancer and choreographer when he established the troupe in 1956 with its namesake, the...Tags: Dance, Armed Forces, Death and Dying, Dancing, Defense
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Review: Miami City Ballet performs Twyla Tharp and Elvis Costello's 'Nightspot'
Here's a suggestion: Let's ditch the nightclub as a setting for ballet. No more predictable tales about the trials of courtship or the ballroom as a metaphor for life.
Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella's smart and spirited South Florida company,...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Dance, Classical Music, Danny Elfman, Music
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Miami City Ballet's three-pointe plan arrives
The New York TimesThe art of program building in ballet, often supposed to be a thing of the past, is not dead. Miami City Ballet's current program — Swan Lake Act II, The Four Temperaments and In the Upper Room, the third of its couplings of choreography by George...Tags: Dance, Miami City Ballet, Kravis Center, Imperial and Royal Matters, Dancing
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